Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Haunted In Hoosierville

When I was fifteen, we moved into an older house near the river. At the time, we all were very excited to be moving, it was a bigger house and we would all have our own bedrooms and my grandfather was going to be living with us too.

We moved in the summer of 2002, and right away I started noticing things. The occurrences were small at first, things we chalked up to the house being old and having faulty wiring or bad plumbing. The radio would turn off or up on its own, the light bulbs would blow, the television would turn on by itself and auto program to a strange  station, we would hear the floorboards groaning upstairs, the beds would tremble. Just basic things that happen in every old house,  right? That’s what I told myself, anyway. Then the things started to get worse.

The basement always creeped me out. Honestly, it creeped everyone out but my …

My Death Touch

I was adopted, and until very recently, have not had any contact with my parents. My birthmother was adopted too, and my birthfather moved here from Iranian royalty. Growing up, I was one of those kids who was obsessed with death at a very young age. When I was five or six, I would ask random strangers if they would prefer to be cremated or buried, or when they thought they would die, or if they really thought they would have an afterlife, and etc. Though I was always very cheerful and outgoing, and had many friends, I was the only kid I knew who WANTED to die, to feel what it was like.

My earliest memory is being in a kitchen, with my “dad’s” best friend, David holding me high in the air, I’m a baby and its very painful, he’s doing the whole “goochie goochie goo!” baby routine and even though I’m a baby I have the memory …

Shadow Man In Oxfordshire Farm Cottage

I lived in a small two bedroom old farm cottage in a small village called Byfield, just outside Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. It was well over 100 years old and would have previously been inhabited by those working for a large local farm.

When I moved in it had been modernized and the original staircase had been removed and a spiral one put in its place.  The rooms were very small and dark as you would expect from such a small cottage. I can’t say I had ever felt uneasy whilst I was there, there was a nice cozy feel to the cottage.  You would enter the living room directly from the front door and there was a very large cozy fireplace.

I had a small dog for company and we would often sit curled up on the sofa in front of the fire.  One early evening though my dog jumped up to his feet and all the hair on …

Troubled By Demons And Looking For Help

My husband, son and I went on a vacation to Daulphin Island (Alabama) about 6 – 7 years ago. We did not know until afterwards that the Island was haunted and had been nicknamed “Massacre Island”. I had noticed in the beach house that we were staying in that the owner had painted a piece of driftwood that looked like a snake. I thought it looked cool so I gathered all the “snake like” driftwood that I could find. Interestingly enough, this was not a hard task (even though it would normally be at any other beach).

I had a dream of being killed by drowning the first night we were there. It was so real… like I was experiencing something that had really happened. I believe that spirits/demons followed us back home to Kentucky, because this was when all of our trouble started. I have seen things from the corner of my eyes and picture face patterns in many …

Ghosts And The Zomis

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Teresa Tangpua and I belonged to an ethnic tribe called the Zomi which inhabits western Burma, south Manipur (a state in India), the Chittagong Hilltracts (in Bangladesh) and Mizoram, literally meaning land of the Zomis… which is a full fledged state in north east India. We have mongoloid features.

Coming to the point, I have heard many ghost stories from my grandparents and my dad as well. Our tribe believed ghosts to be of two categories… the first being that of dead people and the second type exist as humans have existed. We have folklores like Khupching and Ngambawm where Khupching is the heroine who dies, her spirit visits Ngambawm, her lover and takes him to the land of the dead… even though he was still alive.

My dad’s village has well preserved footprints believed to be that of Khupching and Ngambawm. I still remember my grandpa telling me about …

Ouija Board Returns From The Trash

When I was younger, my older brother, sister, and me had a board. We hadn’t had it long, my older brother had just brought it home, thinking it would be fun to mess with. About 10 minutes into asking questions, my mom came in from another room, not knowing we were messing with it to begin with.

She grabbed the board, and said now it’s in the house. That was all she said, the next morning was trash day, as I was taking the trash can down, my mom came out with the board and put it in the trash can, I watched it until the trash truck came and picked it up. Now that was roughly 26 yrs ago + or – a year.

My mom was cleaning out her attic a few yrs ago, I get a phone call as I live out of state now, asking why did I get it out of the trash! I asked …

The Scary Stick Scarecrow

I remember this, it happened when I was little, I was nine. I remember it so clearly because it scared me so much. Our house was, at that time, in an un-developed area. There were woods all around our house, but the tree’s didn’t grow in one area, a lot., no trees would grow there. I planted a few, but they died. As a child this interested me, and I loved to go there at night with my friends. We would sneak out of the house, and go to the lot and play.

Well, one time, I looked, and at the edge of the lot, there was this freakish looking scarecrow that I’d never seen before. It’s body was made out of dark, slender sticks, the sticks were bound with twine or something. Its face… hollow, it had no eyes, just empty holes. Well, one of my friends called my name, so I looked away, I looked back, and it …

The Old House That Drove My Mother Insane

When I was young, I lived in a very large, old house a few miles outside of a little town.  The house was huge and had lots of small crawlspaces and tiny, hidden doors that hadn’t been used for a very long time.  My parents were so excited to move in; the house was in amazing condition and had beautiful casings and etchings and handmade touches everywhere you looked.  We were told never to open the doors because the old knobs and locks tended to stick, and it could be very dangerous to play in them.

Naturally, my younger brother and I couldn’t resist them. When we were small (7 and 5), we would never dare to enter through the doors because we were forbidden, but especially because they were very dark and dusty and draped in old spider webs. I for one was terrified of spiders, and that was enough to keep me out. But we loved that they …

Room Haunted With Sad Energy

I use to believe that ghosts were just a figment of our imagination. That we made our selves think that there was more after we died. But what I have seen and experienced these past couple of years changed my mind.

My name is Naomy and I am 17 years old. I live in a small apartment with my five siblings (my dad, little sister, big sister, my niece, and brother in law) a normal family with normal problems until my dad told us that he had seen a little ghost boy run through the hall way. I really didn’t pay much attention to it since I thought my dad was just trying to scare us. But what happened later on the next day I could not explain.

My brother had moved out when I took his room. He had always said that the room was haunted but I didn’t believe him since he never saw anything. All he would …

My Great Grandfather Still Talks To Me

It was on the day of the last day of school before the big winter vacation, when my mom told me that her, me, my brother, and my sister were going to Florida to visit my sick great grandfather in his rehabilitation center.

When we got there we first went to his house where we would be staying. His wife died of pneumonia, (in the year of 2002), so we would pretty much have the house all to ourselves. That night at around 12:00 midnight I suddenly felt very, very, thirsty. I got up and went into the kitchen. I filled up my glass and started walking back to my bedroom, when I heard someone calling my name. I got scared and ran back to my room as fast as I could. Suddenly, I tripped and my cup of water went flying out of my hand and across the room. The extremely weird thing was that the cup of water …

The Red Scarf Dare

This happened to me when I was 14 years old, I tried to forget what happened to me on the 16th of October. I have lived in England for my whole life next to the Whitby Woods. In the centre of the woods we always use to play it or tag or hide and seek and as you come to find out, Dares.

We had been playing hide and seek but had got bored quickly so it was my best friends idea to do dares, we did the usual e.g. Climbing as far up a tree as possible and having to stay by your self for a certain amount of time (the woods could be scary at night). As we were looking for a place for the person to stay we came to a clearing which we had never come to before which had an old crumbling cottage, and as it was decided it was my turn next for a …

Haunted House On Swartruggens Mine Part 2

 Please read Part 1 before reading this part…

So anyway… as we hear what seemed like footsteps run downstairs, about two seconds after the sound disappeared, we heard Yolande scream downstairs. So Phillip and myself went back down stairs to find Yolande was half in a state because she saw somebody run past the kitchen entry where they were standing.

Yolande wanted to leave that very instant, but Johnny got her to stay a while longer. So we thought it might feel warmer in the house if we could try and talk to this lost soul, so we just started asking: ‘if there is anything besides us four here, to please show us all a sign. Nothing happened, so we asked it again, and then there was a very soft scratching sound, which sounded like it was coming from the floor. So we, from there, decided there will be no more splitting up, we all went to go and see …